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In 2013, the Productivity Commission’s findings indicated that there were an existing 1.3 million aged care users in Australia, and that this number would likely increase to 3.5 million by 2050. With this predicted growth in mind, it is now ...

Australia’s aged care sector has recently undergone what is arguably its most profound period of reform, with new legislation coming in earlier this year that affords clients and their families unprecedented choice regarding the facilities in which they reside. This ...

Aged care chef Gordon Manuel always asks himself if he’d be willing to pay good money at a restaurant for the meal he’s serving to a resident. If not, he won’t send it out. Manuel, who has a background in hotel ...

Malnutrition is common in aged care settings and is associated with an increased risk of ill health and a decline in the physical health, function and wellbeing of residents. Studies consistently identify that more than half the people living in ...

With one in nine Australians affected, asthma prevalence in Australia is higher than in comparable Western countries such as the UK and US. Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that can vary throughout a person’s lifetime. Though many cases are ...

More work needs to be done on the rollout of the government’s Increasing Choice in Home Care (ICHC) program, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) says. Announced in the 2015-16 Budget and commenced on 27 February 2017, the ICHC reforms aimed ...

People in their 60s and 70s could lower their dementia risk if they hit the gym to retain muscle mass and remain at a healthy weight, early results from a new study suggest. The research team observed about 400 people ...